"Artificial General Intelligence (AGI ) Is A Category Error"

AGI is not the future of intelligence.

It is the last gasp of an outdated theory of intelligence.

The AGI race is chasing a wrong object: the fantasy that intelligence lives inside an isolated mind and that the ultimate achievement is to rebuild that mind inside a machine.

That premise is wrong.

Civilization did not advance by making the individual mind more self-sufficient.Civilization advanced by moving cognition outside the skull.

- Language made thought social

- Writing externalized memory

- Mathematics externalized reasoning

- The internet made knowledge searchable and networke ...